Research & Statistics

Visitor Experience

Surveys are carried out regularly by VisitScotland to find out what our visitors think about their holiday in Scotland (their attitudes) and what they do while in Scotland (their behaviour).

In 2007 the survey was renamed The Visitor Experience (formerly the Tourism Attitudes Survey). The survey covers both visitors from within the UK and selected overseas countries. Please note that which overseas countries were selected, differs from survey to survey.

Please click on the links below to download a summary for each survey:

Visitor Experience 2007
Spitfire at Kelvingrove Museum. Photo credit: Les Chatfield / through a Creative Commons Licence

pdf 2007 Visitor Experience
PDF document 325kb

Now available is an outline of how the visitor experience reseach can benefit tourism businesses.

pdf Insights from the Visitor Experience 2007
PDF document 36 kb

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Countries surveyed, click to download country summary:

pdf Scotland  
PDF document 90kb

pdf England and Wales
PDF document 90kb

pdf Canada
PDF document 95kb

pdf France
PDF document 92kb

pdf Germany
PDF document 90kb

pdf Italy
PDF document 90kb

Tourism Atitudes Survey 2005
The Scottish Crannog Centre, Kenmore, Perthshire

Countries surveyed: Scotland, England, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden

pdf  2005 Tourism Attitudes Survey
PDF document 100kb

Tourism Attitudes Survey 2004
The Bridge of Cally Hotel, Perthshire

Countries surveyed: Scotland, England, USA, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands

pdf  2004 Tourism Attitudes Survey
PDF document 35kb

Further Information

For further information on the Visitor Experience study please contact Fiona Carruthers or Scott Bryden in the Research Team.